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Team Building by Torture? Not So Effective
By now you've heard about the overzealous manager who used waterboarding as a motivational tool for an underperforming sales force. (Boss to team: "You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales.") ...
Tags: Team management, CC Holland, team-building
Blog posts 2008-04-26
Team Building by Torture? Not So Effective
Team Building by Torture? Not So EffectiveRE: Team Building by Torture? Not So EffectiveUnbelievable! I thought the kind of brutal management mentality described in the artilces died right after the Spanish Inquisition. It is a real shame that some so-called managers still believe the best way to improve production and...
Tags: Team management, team, team-building
Discussion threads 2008-05-01
Appreciate to Motivate (The Five Secret Keys to Successful Team Building)
Time and time again the one motivating factor at the top of most employee lists is appreciation for a job well done. It is more requested than the green stuff, money. Why don't more managers, owners, and employees give appreciation? Some people state they don't know how to give it....
Tags: Team management, appreciation, team-building, job, environment
White papers
Team Work and Team Building Essentials
Team building skills are critical for a person's effectiveness as a manager or entrepreneur. And even if he is not in a management or leadership role yet, better understanding of team work can make him a more effective employee and give him an extra edge in his corporate office. A...
Tags: Team management, team-building, team, leadership
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How to Build and Manage Great Teams
Effective team managers understand what type of group model best suits the task, what key skills to look for in team members (and which to strictly avoid) and how to coax top performances from everyone starting from day one. ...
Tags: Team management, Jeff Palfini, team, job, leader, consulting, collaboration, accounting, performance
Articles 2008-01-25
Four Great Teams in Business History
Great minds, support from management, and their own brand of secret sauce helped these teams come up with some of the biggest innovations in recent business history. The Java Development Team at Sun Microsystems ...
Tags: Team management, Leadership, Strategy, Jeff Palfini, Larry Page, James Gosling, assembly line, Sergey Brin, founder, The Walt Disney Co., team, Ford Motor Co., business development, Eric Schmidt, programmer, Sun Microsystems Inc., leader, Java development, innovation, worke
Articles 2008-01-25
Time Management Skills 5 Delegation Strategies For Team Building Success
Time management becomes stress management as you enhance your communication skills. Were you taught delegation skills that foster resentment? This paper explains a simple quiz to find out. 5 Delegating Power Principles can transform your personal effectiveness in every area of your life. The paper also explore how your methods...
Tags: Team management, time management, stress management, team-building, communication skill, strategy
White papers 2007-12-01
Creating Cross-Functional Teams
Most business projects require a wide variety of skills to complete the tasks involved. If you’re managing such a project, it’s almost axiomatic that you will be directing a group of individuals from different backgrounds: They may be members of your own organization, from other units of your company, or...
Tags: Team management, BNET Editorial, team, team-building, recruiting, women, project management, accounting, information technology, monitor, analysis, leader, telecommunications, performance, environment, job, computer, phone
Articles 2007-10-04
Team Building - Collaborative Vs. Competitive
Small team sizes help ensure that everyone joins in. Quieter people will be less likely to fade into the background the smaller the team they are in. Most team building events are run as competitions. Teams are usually given identical goals and are awarded points as they move towards them....
Tags: Team, Team-building, Team Management, Management
White papers 2006-02-26
Top Ten Things About Team Building
People who lead the best teams realise early on that they cannot run their business alone. It will either kill them or they will fail. In this paper, the author discusses some of the ways the very best set about Team Building. The first is to be clear. Great team...
Tags: Team, Team-building, Team Management, Management
White papers 2005-07-05
Encourage Employee Socializing
The assumption underlying Knowledge Management (KM) efforts is that untapped power lies within an organization and needs only to be brought forth. But what if KM software, communities of practice and offsite team-building exercises are actually part of the problem? A forthcoming book on companies' social networks points out that...
Tags: Team management, Business intelligence, Strategy, International Data Group, team-building, knowledge management, social networking, collaboration, knowledge, e-mail, network
White papers 2004-06-01
Ensuring Readiness for Europe's First Mars Mission - Team Building Through Simulations
In the years preceding the launch of a spacecraft various teams of experts are preparing the space and ground segments. Each of these teams is focusing on the area of its responsibility and even though information is exchanged among them, the outputs of their work are relatively standalone. During the...
Tags: Team, Mission, Team-building, Team Management, Management
White papers 2004-05-21
Team Building Is About Discovering How People Think and Work
Team building programmes around the world are growing phenomena. It is a common practice for most organisations today to hold team building events at either department level or company level at least once a year. One of the main reasons is that most managers today believe team building events are...
Tags: Team management, team-building, bond, benefit
White papers 2004-01-01
10 Innovative Ideas for Successful Team Building Events
Team building can give a powerful boost to the spirit and effectiveness of any group. Well designed and delivered team building programs can lead to better understanding, clearer alignment and much stronger motivation. The article discusses some ideas that can be used to make an event a well-planned and memorable...
Tags: Team management, team-building, motivation
White papers 2003-01-01
Tips On team-building : Read This Before You Crash In The Desert!
If one has been around the team-building block, they must be probably familiar with that classic activity in which each participant jots down three things about himself or herself: two that are true, one that is false. A facilitator or group member then reads each person's list of three, and...
Tags: Team management, Crain Communications Inc., team-building, team
White papers 2003-01-01
Building Multicultural Work Teams
A team is a collection of people with complimentary skills who working together towards common goals and objectives. Several factors come into play during the team building activity. Cultural compatibility is necessary between members of a team where individual members are picked up from different cultures. The paper examines these...
Tags: Team management, team-building, team
Presentations 2003-01-01
Team Building
A group of people working towards attainment of common goals and objectives constitutes a team. Teams play an important role in organizations. They are responsible for channeling collective energies towards attaining success in the task at hand. Team building is the process of carefully cultivating an effective team. The process...
Tags: Team management, team-building, team
White papers 2003-01-01
Team Building
In today’s dynamic business era, the emphasis of organizations is on ‘collective work culture.’ Teams play an important role in the same. Teams consist of different individuals having complimentary skills who work together towards a common goal. The paper examines the process of team-building in organizations.
Tags: Team management, team-building, team
Presentations 2003-01-01
Moving To A Global Economy
Some researchers argue that America was never competitive after World War II, but rather had effortless economic superiority and a lack of foreign competition. US multinational corps dominated world trade. There are various phases of globalization, which are domestic, international, multinational, and global. The global strategies, which can be adopted,...
Tags: team-building, communication skill, globalization, strategy
Presentations 2003-01-01
What's Your Cat's Name? a team-building Exercise
Games are an ancient and fun way to get people interacting, even in stressful situations. At one of my seminars, an attendee, Susan Peters of BorgWarner PTC Shared Services, shared this technique that she and her colleagues had found very valuable.
Tags: Team management, team-building, technique, game
White papers 2003-01-01
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